The evolving role of physiotherapists in pre-employment screening for workplace injury prevention: are functional capacity evaluations the answer?

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Table 1. Key attributes of work-related assessments

Attribute	Description
Safety	The test is safe to administer for both the participant and the assessor
Reliability	The test results are reproducible on any occasion between evaluators (inter-rater) and participants (test-retest)
Validity	The test measures what it reports to measure and is predictive of performance
Practicality	The test is easy to administer with reasonable or minimal cost
Utility	The functional test relates to job performance and meets the needs of the involved parties